Anthem Speed affirms Christopher Bolin's emergence as a singular stylist in twenty-first century American poetry. By turns austere, gritty, futuristic, and visionary, Bolin's poems trace the romance between beauty and destruction like vapor trails, seeming to emerge from nowhere and yielding alucid, unearthly glow, an evocation of absent presences and scattered signs. Bolin tests the acoustics of operating rooms, battlefields, courtrooms, and mountainsides, and envisions-with animal acuity-a world imperiled and empowered by its leaders and myths.